Re: Compute event at Twitter HQ

[Chris Lambert]

Awesome!  Can't wait to watch these.

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Zameer Manji  wrote:

> Hey,
>
> It seems the talks are now available:
> https://blog.twitter.com/2016/overview-of-the-twitter-cloud-platform-compute
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Joshua Cohen  wrote:
>
>> Just a heads up for those who will not be able to attend: these talks will
>> be recorded and made available on Twitter's YouTube channel. I'll be sure
>> to send out a link after the event.
>>
>> For those who are attending, we look forward to seeing you tomorrow night!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Joshua
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Joshua Cohen  wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Aurorans[1],
>> >
>> > I'd like to call attention to an event the Compute group at Twitter is
>> > holding at the end of the month where there will be a few of
>> > Aurora/Mesos-related talks:
>> >
>> >
>> >1. David Robinson, one of our SREs, will talk about how our small
>> team
>> >of SREs manages what is possibly the largest Mesos cluster in
>> existence (I
>> >have no evidence to back that up, but it sounds good ;)).
>> >2. David McLaughlin, Aurora committer/PMC member, will talk
>> Workflows,
>> >an internal tool we've built to orchestrate deployments across Aurora
>> >clusters.
>> >3. David Hagar[2], Engineering Manager at TellApart, will talk about
>> >running Aurora/Mesos in AWS.
>> >
>> >
>> > On top of that there will be lots of other great talks about how we run
>> > the entirety of our compute infrastructure.
>> >
>> > The event is on the evening of March 31st at Twitter HQ in San
>> Francisco.
>> > I hope to see you guys there!
>> >
>> > https://www.eventbrite.com/e/compute-tickets-22811196904
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Joshua
>> >
>> > [1] I just coined that, Aurorans, what do you think?
>> > [2] Contrary to the evidence above, you don't need to be named David to
>> > work on Aurora/Mesos at Twitter.
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Zameer Manji
>>
>>

Re: Revocable offer support

[Chris Lambert]

FYI, BenM started a related discussion on the Mesos dev list:
http://markmail.org/thread/x64chxxjqygxvxrr


On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Maxim Khutornenko  wrote:

> Design document:
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r1WCHgmPJp5wbrqSZLsgtxPNj3sULfHrSFmxp2GyPTo/edit
> Docs:
> https://github.com/apache/aurora/blob/3298d38b5ae4cc449adb580891dbc049590df2f8/docs/configuration-reference.md#revocable-jobs
>
> The feature is available in beta status and can be used with a tier
> set to 'revocable' in your aurora config file. That, of course, if
> both master and scheduler are configured to issue revocable offers.
>
> BTW, all design documents are listed here:
> https://github.com/apache/aurora/blob/master/docs/design-documents.md
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Ashwin Murthy 
> wrote:
> > Is there a working group/design document for revocable offer support in
> > Aurora? I am interested in helping out with this effort, if possible.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ashwin
>

Re: New committer and PMC member: Steve Niemitz

[Chris Lambert]

Congrats!

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Tony Dong 
wrote:

> Congrats Steve! 
>
> On Tuesday, January 12, 2016, Steve Niemitz  wrote:
>
> > Woo! Thanks Bill!  I'm excited to be on board!
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Bill Farner  > > wrote:
> >
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > Please join me in welcoming Steve Niemitz, who is now an Aurora
> committer
> > > and PMC member!  Steve has been active in the community for over a
> year,
> > > initially contributing by championing and implementing Docker support
> in
> > > Aurora.
> > >
> > > Welcome aboard, Steve!
> > >
> >
>

Re: New committer and PMC members!

[Chris Lambert]

Awesome, congrats!

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Bill Farner  wrote:

> I'm pleased to announce that we have two new formal additions to our ranks!
>
> Joshua Cohen is now a PMC member (he has been a committer for some time)
>
> John Sirois is now a committer and PMC member
>
>
> Please welcome me in congratulating them on their new roles!
>
>
> -=Bill
>

Constraining the environment field

[Chris Lambert]

Is there a method for constraining the environment field to a
pre-determined set of values?  It appears to be just a string [1], but IIRC
there was some validation possible somewhere to prevent arbitrary values.

Chris

[1]
https://github.com/apache/aurora/blob/master/api/src/main/thrift/org/apache/aurora/gen/api.thrift#L132

New email lists

[Chris Lambert]

Hi folks,

Looks like one of the new lists is broken...  :-/

:
> Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)


Chris